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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7682372 | Sequential tissue forceps for use in tissue fastening A sequential surgical forceps is adapted to sequentially grasp tissue on opposed sides of a tissue interface and then present the tissue for capture and closure by a surgical fastening apparatus. The sequential tissue forceps comprises a first arm, a second arm and ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7178847 | Illuminated magnifying tweezers A single unit illuminated magnifying tweezers apparatus used to facilitate the gripping and handling of small objects comprising a housing, a magnifying lens, a light source and tweezers. The tweezers are pivotally mounted within the cavity of the housing such that ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7004957 | Actuating and locking mechanism for a surgical tool An actuating mechanism for actuating a surgical tool of a surgical instrument including an actuating device having an actuator surface. The actuating device is operable by applying a force to substantially any part of the actuator surface for placing the actuating d... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6764488 | Devices and methods for occlusion of the uterine arteries Devices and methods are disclosed for treating a uterine disorder which receive its blood supply from a uterine artery. In particular, uterine fibroids are effectively treated by occluding the uterine arteries using trans-vaginal, trans-uterine, transrectal, or retr... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6558398 | Deplitory device A deplitory device for the removal of unwanted hair. The deplitory device includes a heatable tweezer having an upper portion containing wax that is dispensable onto a user's hair, allowing the user to utilize the tweezer to remove the cured wax thereby r... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6471515 | Device for holding an abutment The current invention provides a device for holding dental abutments such as healing caps, healing screws, contoured healing abutments, PME (precision margin esthetics) abutments, PME impression pins, hexed transfer assemblies, straight and angled fixed s... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6447291 | Orthodontic jig for attaching orthodontic brackets An orthodontic jig for attaching orthodontic brackets on the teeth is disclosed. The orthodontic jig comprises a housing, a bracket support extending out of the front side of the housing through the back side of the housing, tweezers for gripping the tie ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6368340 | Clamp assembly and method of use A clamp for clamping a body structure in a patient. The clamp includes a flexible cable housed within a sheath. The cable and sheath extend between a clamp and a handle. The cable actuator. The cable extends through a sheath which is anchored at the clamp... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6096059 | Microsurgical tool A microsurgical tool (8), in the form of forceps, allows access and micro-manipulation into very small confined spaces, such as the cochlea. The microsurgical tool includes an activation body (10) and a working head (20). The activation body is made from ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6086565 | Syringe for endoscope A syringe for an endoscope including a flexible sheath having an operating part connected to a proximal end portion thereof. A flexible fluid transfer tube is axially movably inserted in the sheath. A hollow needle communicably provided at the distal end ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5868787 | Orthodontic tweezers with a gauge The present invention provides tweezers with a guage for holding and affixing the bracket accurately and precisely to the patient's tooth. Also, the present invention provides tweezers with a guage suitable for minimizing the operator's working time and d... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5855590 | Clamp assembly and method of use A clamp for clamping a body structure in a patient. The clamp includes a flexible cable housed within a sheath. The cable and sheath extend between a clamp and a handle. The cable actuator. The cable extends through a sheath which is anchored at the clamp... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5740611 | Grooming device A grooming device including a stem, a first and a second arm extending from one end of the stem, the first arm having a first flat surface and the second arm having a second flat surface arranged substantially parallel to the first flat surface. An angled... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5704925 | Medical instrument for injecting liquids into a hollow organ and/or drawing off liquids from a hollow organ, in particular a bile duct Medical instrument for injecting liquids into a hollow organ and/or drawing off liquids from a hollow organ, in particular a bile duct. Clamping apparatus are associated with the hollow needle of the instrument, this instrument being constructed as a tubu... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5634275 | Combination of two tools This invention combines the nail clipper and the tweezer into one unit. The tweezer part of the Twipper is in the space between the opposing metal parts of the nail clipper, and is held in place by the post that anchors the lever in between the opposing m... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5626607 | Clamp assembly and method of use A clamp for clamping a body structure in a patient. The clamp includes a flexible cable housed within a sheath. The cable and sheath extend between a clamp and a handle. The cable actuator. The cable extends through a sheath which is anchored at the clamp... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5609608 | Miniature plastic gripper and fabrication method A miniature plastic gripper actuated by inflation of a miniature balloon and method of fabricating same. The gripper is constructed of either heat-shrinkable or heat-expandable plastic tubing and is formed around a mandrel, then cut to form gripper prongs... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5536251 | Thoracoscopic devices and methods for arresting the heart The invention provides devices and methods for thoracoscopically arresting the heart and establishing cardiopulmonary bypass, thus facilitating a variety of less-invasive surgical procedures on and within the heart and great vessels of the thorax. In one ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5472450 | Mechanism for syringe needle disposal An improvement for medical and dental instruments of the type that include two handle legs joined by a pivoting joint. The improvement provides for opposite and cooperating curved portions that, when brought towards each other, define a gripping area capa... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5464405 | Bipolar surgical tweezers Embedding a perfusion passage pipe in the surface at the inside of one of the arms of a tweezers partially or entirely and concurrently, fastening a housing portion in the rear of the grip portion in a range of 90° to 170° angled from the tip portion to... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5431665 | Comedo extracting tool A comedo extracting tool having a comedo extractor at one end, a clap forceps at an opposite end, and a flat handle connected between the comedo extractor and the clamp forceps. The comedo extractor has an oblong opening in the center, the width of the ob... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5358297 | Tweezers with hinged magnifying glass A magnifying arm attached to tweezers has the magnifying glass itself hingedly attached to the arm.... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5342375 | Needle gripping apparatus The present invention provides an apparatus which is designed to capture, and manipulate the movement of, surgical needles as they pass through the tissue wall of a patient. The apparatus of the present invention has, among other things, a removable gripp... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5263754 | Barbed tweezers with magnifying glass Tweezers have two arms mounted on a spacer with a barbed tip at the other end of the arms. The tweezers are sharpened to the barbed tip with a belt sanding apparatus, which includes a holding device for positioning the tweezers on the belt sanding apparat... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5250046 | Heated forceps Forceps used in handling laboratory tissue samples being embedded in paraffin are prevented from accumulating congealed paraffin by maintaining the temperature of the grasping portions of the forceps above the point at which the paraffin remains liquid. E... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5178622 | Instrument for implanting a soft intraocular lens The inventive instrument is an improvement in a surgical instrument of the type having fingers to grasp a soft, foldable intraocular lens (IOL) for implantation in a human eye following removal of the cataractous lens. The IOL has a relatively thick optic... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5047037 | Suture removing instrument A forceps-like device with scored surfaces on the inside of the tips of two arms for grasping a suture. A blade is provided on the inside of one arm just behind the tip. The blade does not contact the other arm when a light amount of compression force is ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5047049 | Self orienting instrument handle An improved hand held medical instrument having an instrument tip having a preferred orientation, and rotatable to at least one other orientation, the tip being attached to an instrument handle adapted to be held in the hand of the user, the handle having... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5015252 | Surgical forceps with suture cutters An improved forceps device (10) is described. The forceps device includes a handle (11) formed of spaced apart plates (14) and (15) joined by bridge member (16) to form a pocket (17). Spaced apart arms (12) and (13) form the distal end of the handle and t... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4836596 | Tweezers and magnifier The present invention provides a combined tweezers and magnifier instrument wherein the parts may be snap-connected for ease of assembly, sterility, cleanliness and facility of use.... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4671283 | Forceps A pair of forceps has a shank and a pair of resilient arms. A groove, running along the inner face of each arm and communicating with a channel in the shank, accommodates a fiber optic cable which provides illumination at the tip of the forceps for items ... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4633862 | Patellar resection sawguide Disclosed herein are a method and instruments for the installation of a patellar button prosthesis. The first instrument consists of a saw guide including gauges integrally attached thereto which aid the surgeon in determining whether the patella has been... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4586503 | Surgical microclip A surgical microclip particularly adapted for microvascular anastomoses is described as including a pair of arcuate legs interconnected by a bridging section. The clip is formed of a unitary piece of biologically acceptable, plastically deformable materia... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4552143 | Removable switch electrocautery instruments A family of removable switch electrocautery instruments is provided by springably releasably mounting a switch means to an instrument provided with a conductive member adapted to come into contact with living tissue and a handle member. The handle member ... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4541428 | Cuticle cutting tweezers with progressive cutting edge engagement The tweezer legs (1) each carry, at their ends movable under spring pressure, a tweezer jaw (5) with a cutter (8). The tweezer jaws (5) and the cutters (8) are located in a mirror image opposite one another on both sides of a plane of symmetry (7') and ar... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4524647 | Tweezer assembly A tweezer assembly for handling small objects comprising a housing, a magnifying lens, a light source and tweezers. The tweezers are pivotally mounted on the housing such that the gripping ends thereof can be pivoted into the focal range of the magnifying... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4508106 | Microsurgical method for applying permanent eyelid liner A method and apparatus for applying a permanent or semi-permanent cosmetic eye liner to the edge of an eye lid by implanting a pigment solution by surgical procedure along the edge of the eye lid and/or the lash line. The eye lid is anesthetized and stabi... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4494543 | Instrument for extracting splinters An instrument for extracting splinters and the like, having a hollow elongated handle; a pair of resilient arms, the arms being mounted externally on the handle, having jaws disposed outwardly of a tip end of the handle, and extending along the handle tow... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4401434 | Kit adapted to facilitate storage and use of splinter-removing materials A kit containing equipment and medication to facilitate the removal of slivers or similar foreign substances from the human body. The kit includes a receptacle, adapted to be filled with an antiseptic or similar fluid, and a cap positionable over the rece... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4369787 | Method of cutting a suture A method of cutting a suture at least partly disposed in tissue and bearing a knot formed in the suture, wherein the suture is introduced into the slot of a suture cutter having a slotted member of a predetermined depth and a cutting blade relatively move... | 01/25/1983 |
